Camila Cabello: How "Cinderella" helped her in a "very difficult period"


Camila Cabello used a bit of her own experience to play a princess.

The 24-year-old singer revealed that she was going through a "very difficult period" with her mental health, while she was writing a song for the Amazon movie "Cinderella" in which she starred.

"I do not think I know how to write in a way that is not personal," Camila Cabello explained during a discussion with Kid Cudi, Anderson .Paak and the Sparks Brothers about The Hollywood Roundtable. Reporter ».

"When I was preparing 'Million To One' for 'Cinderella', to be completely honest, I was going through a very difficult time with my mental health," he confessed to the background of the only original song included in the film's soundtrack.

"It was just a period of a lot of stress and sadness for me, and this song made me feel, 'I can get over this. "I know I can make my life better." I feel that I transferred my personal experiences to those of my role. "The role was very confident - everyone said no, but she knew it."

Cabello recently described in detail the stress and stress she faced during the filming of the movie, which was interrupted by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. During a program on Apple Fitness + 's Time to Walk, he revealed that he "cried at least once a day."

In May 2020, during Mental Health Month, Camila Cabello spoke to the WSJ. Magazine for her personal battle with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"Here are the photos that do not exist from the last year: I cry in the car and talk to my mother about how much stress and how many symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder I experience. My mother and I were in a hotel room reading books on obsessive-compulsive disorder because I was desperately seeking relief. "I should experience what seemed like a constant, unwavering, relentless stress that made daily life painfully difficult," he described.

Camila Cabello then revealed that she sought professional help and started cognitive behavioral therapy, meditation and breathing exercises, while in the more recent past she has talked about the help she has received from psychotherapy.